Multi-faceted Refractions

The NAIS annual conference has been in Chicago this past Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. While I have not had the chance to physically attend this conference, it doesn’t mean that I cannot access the ideas and information shared by other attendees.
For the second year, NAIS has had designated “official’ bloggers for the conference. This year [...]

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In celebrations of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the Smithsonian Institution is conducting a series of online presentations Wednesday, February 4th and Thursday, Febraury 5th. The session are (all times CST):
Wednesday
9:00 a.m. – Lincoln’s Deathbed: Images of a Martyred President
10:00 a.m. – Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life
1:00 p.m. – Stamp Stories: Philatelic Images of [...]

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When you are in the middle of the forest, sometimes you forget to look around and take a look at the various new projects which have germinated around you. I know that I spend time spreading and cultivating ideas and it exciting when things begin to take root. I want to share a few of [...]

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I have been asked by Will DeLamater at the TeacherPlaces Book Clubs to lead the February discussion of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. For the first post, I elected to focus the discussion around how we at schools provide the 10,000 hours that Gladwell asserts are needed for to new teachers and to students to gain mastery [...]

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